Ke lister-Guard, Eugene. Oregon
(A Sunday, May , 1961
Road Funds
Top Budget
Item in '61
But Time Permit
Most Talked About
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is
the last in a five-part series
summing iip accomplish
ments of the 1961 legislature.
By DOUGLAS GRIPP and
A. H. PEARSON
By United Preu International '
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SALEM (UPI) The legisla
ture approved $224 million for
roads and a bridge to ease Ore
gon traveling; then it provided
two sets of time to confuse half
the travelers who take to the
highways.
If roads $192 million, plus a
$24 million Astoria-Megler bridge,
and $4 million each for slate
highways 42 and 107 were the
biggest budgeted items, Portland
area daylight saving time is cer
tainly the most talked about
- At many a driver has found
' out, it now takes a little over
two hours, by the clock, to travel
form Salem to Portland. It takes
about five minutes, by the clocks,
to get back. v '
' Opponents are calling this the
legislature's most insulting ac
tion, since Oregon voters turned
down daylight time again last
year.
Nervy or not, It's catching.
MANY CHANGING
- Communities all over the state
have met to consider fast time,
artificial time, summer time, and
sundial time, and one town de
clared in jest it would move its
calendars a week ahead,
The change, at least, has point
ed up the ties that link the rest
of the state to Portland and per
haps by Influence the ties that
bind Portland to the rest of the
nation,
If nothing else, the experiment
is timely, since it will give voters
an actual up-to-date experience
when they vote on statewide fast
time at the polls next year. '
In-addition to highway spend
ing, the highway code got a thor
ough spring cleaning. ; , . .
( Hotrodderi were told to lift
their car bodies at least to the
level of the wheel rime, log
truckers won protection against
outsiders, and laws were laid to
' dear away billboards that, ob-
, struct scenic views.
: TAX CUT VETOED '
A few more daring inovations
were dashed. The legislature had
its fingers rapped with, a veto
: when it tried to give' heavy
trucks a tax break. Beflectorized
- and life-term license plates were
rejected, v.
The driving age stayed at 18,
in spite of efforts to raise it
, Compulsory auto: insurance
, died, but Sen. Rohaft Straub, D-
Eugene, said he will try to take
It to the people.
What looked like the outbreak
' of a bridge epidemic was nipped
when the solons denied pleas for
four more bridges at Albany,
' Oswego. Dayton and Ontario.
! Gov. Mark Hatfield's pleas for
' speed limits and laws to make
It easier to arrest and test drunk
: en drivers were ignored. A law
- requiring safety belts died after
one lawmaker said surveys
showed people usually "sat on
them.";
' Like-highways, the legislature
made extensive overhauls in the
. fields of criminal law, the mili
tia, and commerce.
IDEAS APPROVED
Most of the Judiciary Interim
Committee's legal recommends'
tions, were approved, including
, a strengthened law aimed at
curbing obscene matter, partic-
' ularlv for children.
The legislature's successful ef
forts in the field of Justice were
capped with a modernized definl
tion of legal insanity that will
give more weight to psychiatric
findings. K replaces a century-
mo law.
The code governing the state
- anllltla was completely revamped.
A sweeping commerce code, to
update laws governing nearly all
business transactions, was passed,
but it won't go into effect for
two years.
The need for the two years was
expressed by a young attorney,
. who said it made half his law
school training at least partially
obsolete.
The legislature extended olvll
rights to public services.
It also approved humane
slaughter for steers and pigs, but
got no-where in efforts to end
the death penalty.
Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton
failed to win $50,000 for crimo
prevention.
Lobbyists' fortunes swayed with
the legislative tides, but as a
class they won an implicit volo
of confidence when a bill to regu
late lobbying failed even to got
out of committee.
Kingston Trio Plans
To Split Up Act
SAN JOSE, Calif. OP The
Kingston Trio, one of the most
successful acts in show business,
plans to split up in six months
because the three young record
ing stars don't get along any
more. Dave Guard plans to leave
his two partners, Nick Reynolds
and Bob Shane. Reynolds and
Shane will continue the trio with
a new partner. Guard said ho In
tends to continue his singing
career alone,
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